Serving · 9 Australian governments · 364 datasets · read every week

Australian government open data, in the format you and your AI need.

Every release a publisher makes becomes a dated version that stays where it is, with its schema, its provenance and a diff against the release before. Download it in 11 formats, query it from a URL, chart it in your browser, or hand it to an agent. There are no keys and no accounts.

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9governments

103publishers

364datasets served

485versions kept

126,880datasets searchable

1,430,870 eucalypt records drawn in 71,663 cells of 0.05 degrees, the fullest with 6,565. — Example dataset **1,430,870 eucalypt records from the herbaria and flora atlases of every state and territory, since 1770.** Each picture here is drawn from the same file you can download. See the dataset

In the week to 19 October 2026, 13 datasets had a new version dated in the week.

Find a dataset by topic

Or by government

Every dataset served here sits under a topic. Each one comes with every format, a query API, a browser explorer and an agent that can answer from it.

Roads and transport
Crashes, casualties and deaths on the roads, by place, time and severity.
70 datasets · 7,075,641 rows Registered vehicles by postcode, make, year and fuel, Victoria · Translink origin-destination trips, Queensland · Registered vehicles by owner postcode, make and body type, South Australia
Crime and justice
Recorded offences and criminal incidents by area, offence and month.
29 datasets · 4,199,478 rows Recorded criminal incidents by council area and month, NSW · Recorded offences by suburb and offence, Victoria · Traffic and camera offences and fines, ACT
Housing and property
Rents, prices and land values by suburb and property type.
42 datasets · 136,231,763 rows Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF), Geoscape · Register of regulated pools, Queensland · Rental bond lodgements, New South Wales, 2021
Population and migration
Visa grants, settler arrivals and permanent additions, by stream and country.
9 datasets · 30,142 rows Migration Program outcome by stream and citizenship, Australia, 1996-97 onwards · Settler arrivals by country of birth, Australia, 1959 to 1996 · Permanent additions by country of birth, Australia, 1996-97 to 2016-17
Nature and environment
Species records, water and coasts, from herbaria, atlases and monitoring stations.
52 datasets · 9,685,211 rows Daily water storage levels, Australian dams and reservoirs · Eucalypt records from Australia's herbaria and flora atlases · Air quality hourly averages at every EPA monitoring station, Victoria, latest year
Government and business
Who the agencies, businesses and charities are, from the registers that list them.
27 datasets · 142,005,458 rows Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF), Geoscape · Company Register, ASIC · Business Names Register, ASIC
Prices and the economy
Fuel prices, interest rates and the other series that move week to week.
44 datasets · 1,135,726 rows Daily fuel prices by service station, Northern Territory, 2017 to 2024 · QBCC licensed builders and contractors register, Queensland · Notifiable invoices register, ACT Government
Places and boundaries
The boundaries of suburbs, postcodes, council areas and electorates that every located row is joined to.
44 datasets · 104,987 rows State and local heritage places, South Australia · Current liquor licences by location, Victoria · Suburb and locality boundaries, 2021, Australia
Health and hospitals
Hospitals, emergency departments, notifiable diseases and the services that run them.
29 datasets · 1,354,504 rows Air quality hourly averages at every EPA monitoring station, Victoria, latest year · Air quality monitoring by hour, ACT · Emergency department patients seen on time by hospital and triage category, Australia
Fire, flood and emergencies
Bushfire and flood histories, incidents and the stations that answer them.
32 datasets · 561,034 rows CFA incident responses, Victoria, 2009-10 to 2021-22 · Police, fire, ambulance and SES stations, Australia · Bushfire and prescribed burn history, South Australia
Births, deaths and names
Registered births, deaths and marriages, and the names parents choose.
27 datasets · 347,498 rows Tasmanian deaths index, 1803 to 1939 · Driver's licences by postcode, age and sex, South Australia · Historic death index, ACT
Community and services
Libraries, playgrounds, toilets, pets, holidays and the registers councils and agencies keep.
32 datasets · 161,393 rows Gaming machine data by SA2, Queensland · Current liquor licences by location, Victoria · Dog and cat owners by council, sex and age, South Australia
Education
Schools, students and outcomes.
18 datasets · 60,437 rows State school enrolments by school and year level, February census, Queensland 2015 to 2019 · Child care services, children and hourly fees by area, Greater Sydney and Melbourne, 2012-13 to 2015-16 · School locations, Victoria

Made for agents

Hand it to your agent

The MCP server at publicdata.au/mcp gives any agent 12 tools over every dataset served here. It can find a dataset, read its fields, count and filter across the whole table, diff two versions and vote for one that is not here yet. Every answer names the version it came from and carries the publisher's attribution, so the agent's answer names the government and links to the data.

search_datasets get_dataset list_fields list_partitions query_rows count_rows diff_versions search_catalogue list_backlog upvote_dataset search fetch

The outlined names are the tools the demo beside this uses. Each name links to what its tool does.

claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp

One command. No key, no account, no sign-up.

https://publicdata.au/mcp

Streamable HTTP. Cursor, VS Code or any client that connects to a remote MCP server.

Using https://publicdata.au/llms.txt, how many people died on Queensland roads in 2025, by month?

For an assistant that reads the web and has no connector.

publicdata.au/mcpStreamable HTTPconnected · no key

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Which road user had the most people killed in 2025 by road user where year is 2025?

search_datasets query="road toll"→ au-road-deaths · Australian Road Deaths Database, fatalities · BITRE · 58,837 rows

list_fields slug="au-road-deaths"→ 20 fields · crash_id, state, month, year, day_of_week, time, crash_type, bus_involvement …

count_rows slug="au-road-deaths" where={"year": "2025"} group_by=["road_user"]→ 7 groups · 1,309 rows · version 2026-08-07

Driver, with 564 of the 1,309 people killed in 2025 by road user where year is 2025.

Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics, Australian Road Deaths Database, https://catalogue.data.infrastructure.gov.au/dataset/australian-road-deaths-database, accessed 28 September 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Via publicdata.au, version 2026-08-07.

3 tool callsversion 2026-08-07licence CC BY 4.0key none

A few of the datasets served here

All 364, by government

One from each topic. Each has every format, a query API, a browser explorer and a version history. The small chart is drawn from the newest version, and the line under it says what it shows.

Every dataset, by government

Browse all 126,880

This is what Australian governments list on their open-data portals, read from the portals' own catalogues. A dataset with an open licence and a download can be voted for. Only the licence can block one.

Australian Government 84,252 listed 15,115 open with a download 58 served here The counts come from aihw.gov.au and catalogue.data.infrastructure.gov.au and catalogue.data.wa.gov.au and data.act.gov.au and data.api.abs.gov.au and data.csiro.au and data.gov.au and data.nsw.gov.au and datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au and digital.atlas.gov.au and ecat.ga.gov.au and fed.dcceew.gov.au.

New South Wales 20,764 listed 2,789 open with a download 31 served here The counts come from data-tweed.opendata.arcgis.com and data.bmcc.nsw.gov.au and data.camden.nsw.gov.au and data.campbelltown.nsw.gov.au and data.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au and data.cumberland.nsw.gov.au and data.fairfieldcity.nsw.gov.au and data.gov.au and data.hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au and data.lakemac.com.au and data.liverpool.nsw.gov.au and data.maitland.nsw.gov.au and data.nsw.gov.au and data.wollondilly.nsw.gov.au and data.wpcouncils.nsw.gov.au and datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au and nsw-bayside.opendatasoft.com and open-data-parracity.hub.arcgis.com.

Victoria 7,126 listed 6,274 open with a download 51 served here The counts come from cow-open-data-hub-cityofwodonga.hub.arcgis.com and data.ballarat.vic.gov.au and data.casey.vic.gov.au and data.corangamite.vic.gov.au and data.gov.au and data.melbourne.vic.gov.au and discover.data.vic.gov.au and geelongdataexchange.com.au and geo-latrobecc.hub.arcgis.com.

Queensland 5,828 listed 4,738 open with a download 130 served here The counts come from data-goldcoast.opendata.arcgis.com and data-tsvcitycouncil.opendata.arcgis.com and data.brisbane.qld.gov.au and data.gov.au and data.qld.gov.au and data.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au.

Western Australia 3,158 listed 1,080 open with a download 7 served here The counts come from catalogue.data.wa.gov.au and city-maps-and-data-albanywa.hub.arcgis.com and data.gov.au and geohub-perth.opendata.arcgis.com.

South Australia 2,060 listed 1,798 open with a download 51 served here The counts come from data.gov.au and data.sa.gov.au.

Tasmania 1,398 listed 295 open with a download 5 served here The counts come from data.gov.au and data.thelist.tas.gov.au.

Australian Capital Territory 1,171 listed 435 open with a download 24 served here The counts come from actmapi-actgov.opendata.arcgis.com and data.act.gov.au and data.gov.au.

Northern Territory 1,123 listed 674 open with a download 7 served here The counts come from darwin.opendatasoft.com and data.gov.au and data.nt.gov.au.

What a published file becomes

One file from a portal. All of this.

Example dataset: Department of Treasury and Finance publishes daily fuel prices by service station, northern territory, 2017 to 2024 as one download. Here that download is a dated version, 11 formats, a map, a chart, a query API, a diff against the release before and a citation that resolves in ten years. The rows are not changed.

The publisher's file

nt-fuel-prices-history.csv

Publisher: Department of Treasury and Finance
Size: 58 MB
Licence: CC BY 3.0 AU
Fetched: 30 September 2026
SHA-256: 99eb65bc2832…

A dated version2024-12-06

/d/nt-fuel-prices-history/v/2024-12-06/

Keeps its content. Cached for a year. The publisher's file sits beside it, byte for byte.

12 formatsSame rows, your choice of file

csvxlsxjsongeojsonparquetsqliteduckdbgpkggeo.parquetndjsonarrowcsv.gz

Change the extension and the same version comes back as a different file.

A map578,504 average unleaded 91 (c/l)

578,502 station days drawn in 139 cells of 0.05 degrees, the fullest with 27,858.

A chartAverage unleaded 91 (c/L) per year, 2018 to 2023

A query APICounts from a URL

GET /api/v1/datasets/nt-fuel-prices-history/aggregate?group=region_name&metric=avg.unleaded_91&unleaded_91=gte.100&unleaded_91=lte.300

Filters and group-bys across all 578,504 rows. No key.

A diffAgainst the release before

Rows added, removed and changed, the moment Department of Treasury and Finance releases again.

12 agent toolsAnswers that cite the publisher

search_datasetsget_datasetlist_fieldslist_partitionsquery_rows

Over MCP, with the version and the attribution in every answer.

A citationThat resolves in ten years

Department of Treasury and Finance, Northern Territory, MyFuel NT data, sourced 30 September 2026, https://data.nt.gov.au/dataset?q=myfuel, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/nt-fuel-prices-history/v/2024-12-06/

Versions

Every release, kept

A dataset here is the version history the portals do not keep. Each release becomes a dated version with the publisher's own file beside it, byte for byte, and a diff against the release before by the declared key. Cite a version URL and it will resolve to the same data in ten years.

The URL contract

/d/<slug>/latest/data.csv302 to the newest dated version
/d/<slug>/v/2026-10-19/data.csvkeeps its content, cached for a year
/d/<slug>/v/2026-10-19/source.csvthe publisher's file, byte for byte
/d/<slug>/v/2026-10-19/manifest.jsonsource URL, fetched-at, SHA-256
/d/<slug>/diff/<a>..<b>.jsonrows added, removed and changed by key
/d/<slug>/history.tar.zstevery version's Parquet and manifest

2026-10-19
6,720 rows+0 added −0 removed 6720 changed8 fields5d31dcbd1897latest
Emergency department busyness by day and hour, Queensland, 17 versions kept. When Queensland Health releases again, the release becomes a new dated version here with its diff against this one, by facility_code, day_of_week, time_band.

For the agencies that publish

The file you already published can look like this.

A dataset listed on your portal with an open licence can be served here without a request. The file is kept byte for byte. The licence and the attribution travel inside every format. An agent that answers from it names your agency and links to the version. Listing costs nothing.

How it works for publishers Using it in government work Ask for a dataset

0 changes to your rows. Cells are typed and headers renamed. Nothing is added, ranked or derived.

11 formats from one file. CSV, Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, GeoJSON, GeoPackage and more.

1 URL per version, kept. A citation to it resolves to the same data in ten years.

$0 to the publisher and to the reader. No keys, no accounts, no download limit.

Query API

Ask from a URL

The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. The answer names the version, the licence and the attribution. No key is needed, and the same call is what the agent tools make.

How the filters work

GET/api/v1/datasets/au-road-deaths/aggregate?group=road_user&metric=count&year=eq.2025Run

People killed in 2025 by road user, 1,309 in all, from version 2026-08-07.

{"rows": [{"road_user": "Driver", "count": 564},
  {"road_user": "Motorcycle rider", "count": 260},
  {"road_user": "Passenger", "count": 206}],
 "publicdata": {"version": "2026-08-07", "licence": "CC BY 4.0", "attribution": "Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics, A…"}}

Files

One URL, 11 formats

Change the extension and the same version comes back as a different file. A dated version is cached for a year and keeps its content. latest/ redirects to the newest one. Files have no download limit.

Sizes are Daily fuel prices by service station, Northern Territory, 2017 to 2024, 578,504 rows.

Format

https://publicdata.au/d/nt-fuel-prices-history/latest/data.csv

Download this file

UTF-8 without a byte-order mark, RFC 4180 quoting, one header row using the normalised field names. Opens in Excel, Numbers and Sheets.

curl -L -o data.csv https://publicdata.au/d/nt-fuel-prices-history/latest/data.csv

Explorer

Chart every row in your browser

The explorer loads a version's Parquet file into DuckDB inside the browser and draws a dashboard over it. Click a bar to filter the other panels, add charts, and share the dashboard as a link or a frame. Nothing leaves the browser until you save a link, and there is no rate limit because there is no server in the way.

Open the explorer

/d/nt-fuel-prices-history/explore/Add a chartCopy linkSave a short linkEmbed

Average unleaded 91 (c/L) per year click to filter the others

Average unleaded 91 price (cents a litre) by region where unleaded 91 (c/l) is at least 100 and unleaded 91 (c/l) is at most 300

Rows

date	brand_name	region_name	suburb	postcode
2023-07-01	AMPOL	Barkly	Tennant Creek	0860
2023-07-01	AMPOL	Barkly	Tennant Creek	0860
2023-07-01	AMPOL	Central Australia	ALICE SPRINGS	0870

Written for machines

Every page has a version an agent can read

The site describes itself in the formats agents and search engines already look for, so nothing here needs a scraper.

/llms.txt Lists all 364 datasets with their latest download URLs.

/mcp A remote MCP server with 12 tools. It needs no key.

/openapi.json Describes the query API in OpenAPI 3.1. The API needs no key.

/d/<slug>/index.md Every page except an embed has a Markdown twin with the same facts.

/d/<slug>/fields.json Gives each field's type, range and values for every dataset.

schema.org Dataset Every dataset page carries a schema.org Dataset record for Dataset Search.

/catalog.json Lists all 364 datasets as a DCAT catalogue.

/.well-known/ard.json Lists the site's tools for agent directories.

Most wanted

Search all 126,880 and vote

The datasets people have voted for most, which we build in this order. One click adds a vote, and nobody has to say who they are.

Dataset	Publisher	Licence and formats
ABN Bulk ExtractEvery ABN with entity type, status, GST registration and postcode. Two 475 MiB XML archives, updated weekly.	ABR Cth	CC BY 3.0 AU
directory.gov.au daily exportA daily XML dump of directory.gov.au, which includes the organisations register. Would add a daily version between the quarterly releases.	Finance Cth	CC BY 4.0
Fuel Check, NSWFuel prices for every NSW service station, published monthly as XLSX. The licence is CC BY-SA, so the files here would carry CC BY-SA as well.	Fair Trading NSW	CC BY-SA 4.0
Year 12 outcomes by school, QueenslandYear 12 certification and subject results published as one web page per school per year, with no bulk download. We will ask the publisher for a file.	QCAA Qld	CC BY 4.0
Bulk land values, New South WalesThe land value of every property in NSW, released by the Valuer General as bulk files. The download site answers automated requests with a browser challenge, so the fetch cannot reach the files.	Valuer General NSW	CC BY 3.0 AU

Licence first

Every dataset carries a licence id, an evidence URL from the publisher's own statement and the attribution the licence asks for. The build refuses to publish anything that is not open.

Nothing derived

Cells are typed and headers are renamed. Rows are left alone. No rates, rankings or thresholds are added, and a suppressed cell stays suppressed.

Provenance in every file

JSON, Parquet, SQLite and GeoJSON carry the publisher, licence, attribution, source URL and source hash inside the file.

No tracking

The only analytics is a first-party Cloudflare beacon. There are no cookies and no accounts.

Australian government open data, in the format you and your AI need.

Find a dataset by topic

Hand it to your agent

A few of the datasets served here

Australian Government Organisations Register

Libraries Tasmania locations

State and territory boundaries, 2021, Australia

Local government area boundaries, Queensland